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And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
Cate Blanchett accepting her award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture at the 2014 Academy Awards (via victoriafication)
Coppola says she conceived of Charlotte as someone who felt she could not relate to anyone, like she was speaking a different language. Charlotte wanders the city looking for meaning, but finds she is incapable of grasping it. After visiting a Buddhist temple, she calls her friend in the states and sobs, “I didn’t feel anything.”
Sofia Coppola winning her first Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for “Lost in Translation” - February 29th, 2004
Sofia Coppola has become one of the most successful women directors, being the first American woman to be nominated for an Oscar for best director, while also being nominated for best picture and winning for best original screenplay. She has created women and girl protagonists with depth and interest, adding much needed characters to the Hollywood canon and providing leadership through women’s representation. Yet the interaction, this evident, intentional inclusion of women characters, is sometimes overlooked by critics. Belinda Smaill addresses this in her article about the director: “It is the question of Coppola’s status as a female director, the ambivalent process by which this status is acknowledged and disavowed in the reception of her work, which is most compelling for feminist film theory” (Smaill 149). It’s important to remember that women directors still wish to be what they had set out to be—“directors.” We place “women” as a prefix due to the appalling low numbers that they represent. That said, Coppola does an exceptional job bringing us women characters and is a leader for everyone in the film community.
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media is the only research-based organization working within the entertainment industry to improve gender portrayals in children’s media.
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Hollywood’s women-of-color problem is worse than you realize
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Similar to Twilight in young adult fiction, the big money movies that are women-centric and geared to be blockbuster hits are typically not great representations of women, creating little substantial leadership for women and girls to view. “Chick Flicks” have become multi-million dollar films, but their subject matter and characterization of women has anything but improved. Ashley Elaine York writes about the genre: “The new women’s film is defined by a combination of elements of women’s films from over the decades; for example, they continue to touch on topics of consumerism, romance, beauty, and escape; however, overriding this subject matter is a theme of validation” (York 4). This idea of validation is what’s really problematic. The protagonists in theses films are perfect forms of the beauty myth: white, young, skinny, blond. If they don’t start off that way at the beginning of the movie, they become the myth, filling a false ideal, while seeking a man and not having happily-ever-after until he’s found and they’re walking down the aisle in the closing sequence (amidst the “women can’t have it all” inevitable storyline). The infographics above illustrate this beauty myth and the underrepresentation of women of color in film. Re: the only live action movie in the top 500 grossing films with a woman of color protagonist is Sister Act. That needs to change.
To celebrate our new Females First film strand we pick ten women who shaped cinema past and present
Olivia Wilde, in a panel discussion called “State of Female Justice,” does an excellent job in illustrating the problem with women in film. Women often, as Wilde has in 39 of the 40 movies she has acted in, are cast in supporting roles. Wilde goes on to describe how unexciting this is and how great more diversity would be. She uses the example of an acting group she is in where they took the script of American Pie (wait with me) and did a reading where they reversed the gender roles. The men actors got very bored with their parts, realizing that being a “supporting” character isn’t so fun.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/feminist-of-the-day-olivia-wilde
$44 million.
That’s not Johnny Depp’s paycheck for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 or the marketing budget of the latest Marvel feature. It’s the amount Lucy pulled in at the U.S. box office over its opening weekend. That’s right, Lucy, a female-led action film starring Scarlett Johansson, beat out the weekend’s anticipated winner Hercules, a male-led action film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Why every Hollywood exec needs to study this number
(via micdotcom)
It's incredibly impressive that 'Frozen' made the list.
The Bechdel Test was a critical film test created by Alison Bechdel in her 1985 comic Dykes to Watch Out For. The test is simple and involves three criteria:
1. There are two women in the film.
2. The women talk to each other.
3. The women talk to each other about something other than men.
This is a surprisingly hard test for many movies to pass. In fact, the highest grossing movie of all time, Avatar, even fails the test. True, movies can pass the test and still have problematic themes—that’s to say, passing the test doesn’t truly make a movie “feminist” or not. But having more than two women in movies that don’t just fawn over men would be a great way to up representation of women in media, and therefore leadership. The video is a great description of the test.
http://bechdeltest.com/
It’s pretty obvious that women are underrepresented in film. Why is this so? Perhaps because there are very few women behind the scenes in the actual writing and production of the films. In fact, women have reached a six-year-low in representation in this industry. This is problematic because though the film and media industry is full of jobs and opportunity, the opportunity for women is low and the leadership for young women interested in a related career is nearly nonexistent. 98% of films include more male than female characters. We’re not asking for every movie to be all women casts, but, come on, can we have at least an even amount sometimes? Maybe a majority? Young women deserve to have leaders in this industry.
A further concern of representations of women and girls in books and media is often when a story does take off, it addresses topics that do not provide good leaders for women and girls. The recent success of the Twilight saga has been proof of this. Anna Silver describes the story: “Edward, these critics claim, is frequently controlling and domineering, saving the hapless Bella time and again from danger; Bella suffers from low self-esteem and seemingly has no close friends except for Edward, his family, and Jacob, a suitor-turned-werewolf” (Silver 122). The series depicts a clearly abusive relationship and glorifies it as true love. There is therefore a concern “that many critics and readers feel about the books’ tremendous popularity and the messages that they impart to girls about romance and women’s roles in sexual relationships” (122). The question remains: “Do the books promote retrograde ideas about female submission to male authority?” (122).
As pictured in the image, not all storylines have to be like this. The Buffy saga, while having its setbacks, promotes independence and strength in young girls.
In publishing, women have faced serious obstacles. As Mic points out, women have to face being labeled “Chick Lit,” must deal with review and online biases (such as Wikipedia deeming them soft reads), and issues as banal as “girly” or not serious cover art and design. It should come as no surprise, then, that J.K. Rowling initially published the Harry Potter series under her initials, preventing critics from seeing her feminine first name and writing her off as incapable of writing fantasy. But hope is closer on the horizon these days, as women have made several huge literary advancements in the past year. A woman, Pamela Paul, was named editor of the New York Times Book Review, Alice Munro became the thirteenth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1909, and women are writing more respected, epic-length novels than ever before. A lot more improvement can happen, but women writers are making headway.
http://mic.com/articles/78711/8-historic-moments-for-women-in-literature-from-the-past-year
